Comment by jellojello

7 hours ago

This is amazing, if you feel like opening an entire language to being learned more easily.. Farsi is a VERY overlooked language, my wife/her family speak it but it's so difficult finding great language lessons (it's also called Persian/Dari)

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simedw  7 hours ago

Thank you.

I had a quick look at Farsi datasets, and there seem to be a few options. That said, written Farsi doesn’t include short vowels… so can you derive pronunciation from the text using rules?

  • kranner  7 hours ago

    > written Farsi doesn’t include short vowels… so can you derive pronunciation from the text using rules?

    You can't, but Farsi dictionaries list the missing short vowels/diacritics/"eraab" for every word.

    For instance, see this entry: https://vajehyab.com/dehkhoda/%D8%AD%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A8?q=%D8...

    With the short vowel on the first letter it would be written حِساب (normally written as just حساب)

    The dictionary entry linked shows that there is a ِ on the first letter ح

    But you would have to disambiguate between homographs that differ only in the eraab.